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Unfortunately yes

I started listening to Lo-Fi maybe six months ago. I don’t recall how exactly I uncovered the genre, but it was on YouTube, and likely a result of me searching for soothing relaxing music. The visual aesthetics of lo fi really drew me in. Surprised it is popular to HN too!

YouTube has really taken off for Music, a lot of share our joy of particular music within the comments section, and now people live chat in channels that continuously run music “live”. Lo Fi channels do this a lot.

All that said, I got bored of Lo Fi pretty quickly. For those interested, melodic house (downtempo trance) is really good these days, for example the below were some of my favourite sets recently

https://youtu.be/v2dSpsuBJGI

https://youtu.be/eSsgODhHBI0

Thanks I see. I pay $10 per month for VPN and then 60$ per month for internet so I guess their magnitude of costs is well over 1/6 lower than what I pay for internet

I see, thanks

Can someone explain how VPNs work / why they are cheap to run?

If I download 1TB through my VPN, dont they have bandwidth costs for 1 TB as well?

Yeah this looks like spam otherwise, he/she just linked stuff all his sites otherwise

Even if he does provide a screenshot, I am not sure if an AMA is the best type of post for Hacker News - there is no unique or insightful content in the original post apart from a set of links

XenForo is great!

Ah sorry, I always thought of it as a functional first language

I find functional programming reasonably straightforward to learn but difficult to master.

For example, this Common Lisp cheat sheets covers a large part of the language and isnt hard to follow

https://github.com/ashok-khanna/lisp-notes

I was doing some Haskell and Racket and I found basics not too hard to learn, but I did then too hard to master, but I think thats to do more with the complexities of the problems I tried to solve and less to do with the languages themselves

Yep, they have really come into their own - so much cool stuff in the Emacs ecosystem

That was a very insightful read, thanks for sharing!

Not without reason, it was all part of M$ofts plans…why people don’t see the red flags of GitHub becoming a monopoly over the code ecosystem is beyond me…..

Great, great post. Agree completely and wasn’t aware of this until you wrote it down.

I looked at it on my 5K Mac and also my iPhone 7, and the fonts were a bit thin to my liking, but I find the highest rated comment and similar comments to sharp, “terrible legibility”, “very painful to me”, etc.

If I was posting the article for myself, I would be quite disheartened to spend so many hours and get such direct feedback.

I think its better to leave balanced comment and some positives or not to respond at all. I read the comments and thought to myself oh boy have to check out this site, it must be terrible, which I hardly found to be the case.

Honestly it’s pretty bad to see, somebody just came in and started hating the original poster’s website for no reason and others bandwagonned on.

I had a look at the website and it looked fine, not my tastes (I like mono fonts), but overall perfectly acceptable.

Perhaps a discussion about the content of the article would be more relevant.

Perhaps you are thinking of something else, but Emirates Id requires a resident visa, so its definitely not something for tourists!

Congrats! Very cool

Great article - thanks for sharing!

I wrote (what I hope) is a great read to CSS selectors, check it out if you are keen for a nice intro to this important topic:

https://ashok-khanna.medium.com/rounded-tables-an-elusive-dr...

Sorry it was not direct at you, but to the certain class of FLOSS developers :-)

ps I was having a go at non GPL licenses, because they simply give away everything.

What is PD?

Get a job then. Open Source is for people who want to have their cake (be their own employer / business owner) and eat it too (not actively compete in the market, just ask people to pay for their work since they are doing a service to the community).

Then they shouldn’t get shocked when it works against them. If you are releasing open source (especially under permissive licenses) you are relinquishing your rights - so do it from a view that its charity to the world, but don’t expect to get all the compliments for doing OSS work but also _expect_ market rates for the work you did. No one agreed to pay you for it, no one agreed to pay you royalties for using your product in theirs and so forth.

A (incomplete) Tl;DR:

The strategy that is well tried in the US is to go for counterfeiting/copyright, to seek the most damages. Copyright/IP law can carry significantly more damages, both in France and in the US, compared to a contractual dispute. (Remember that it’s all about money!)

For an IP violation, the court typically looks at the gain of the counterfeiter. That may be winning and executing the government contracts for Orange. My guess is a government contract like that can go for 7 to low 8 figures.

For a contractual violation, the court typically looks at the loss of the victim. That may be some licensing fees and contracting fees for Entr’Ouvert. My guess is a library like that can go for 6 figures, while the bigger player selling OIDC/SAML solutions (Sun, ForgeRock, Oracle, Microsoft) go for an amount per user per year, easily adding up to 7 figures (but I don’t think that one standalone library from a small vendor in 2003 can do that).

Entr’Ouvert followed the counterfeiting strategy, they sued for counterfeiting and got dismissed. (I should stress out that it was a very reasonable strategy, similar law exist, it should have worked, it just didn’t).

Wow! Would you be able to share the xlst code? Would love to learn more

The trick I find is to type very softly, then its an amazing wonderful experience. I haven’t used my MB keyboard for a while so when I went back it felt very jarring because I lost my soft touch. Have to retrain myself

> Misery is doing one thing while thinking about another.

That is a great quote!

I find this fascinating and am a big supporter of FSF and GNU.

All that said, I am not an expert so would like to learn more. Can somebody let me know why one cannot just take the assembly version of an existing compiler and carefully review its code to be happy with it and then build everything from that verified compiler? Why does it need so many steps?

That’s a fantastic story to hear :)

I agree 100% with this article - I do my best thinking when walking. It is the combination of light exercise that gets the blood moving (to the brain!), but not too strenuous that our minds must devote mental energy to the act of phsyical exercise, the oxygen from the fresh air, the feeling of _wandering_ and letting our minds wander.

Sometimes I struggle with deep thinking at my desk - its too quiet / stable. A little bit of distraction helps. Not to say I don’t think while at my desk, I just think walking is a great compliment and in our sedentary lives, better to think on our feet and leave the desk to implementation / coding.

I say this after two productive walks today :)

I understand your perspective. However the solution is for those native to East Asia to post, not non natives to post less. I agree that more viewpoints is better, just wanted to point that

I agree with most of what you say, but I thought most of the usage was now on the mobile app?

By most, I mean the vast majority (hence my perplexion and need to comment and confirm my understanding)